Many of us use flash drives - compact supports a wide range of information.Stick found employment almost everywhere.In the car, at work, at home - everywhere you can see these electronic key chains.But, like any other electronic device, flash drives tend to break down sooner or later.Breaks flash drive does not necessarily have finally, they often begin to appear just write errors.What do we do in such cases?
The first thing, of course, we are trying to throw important information with a faulty stick.If this can be done, then you are definitely in luck.But more often the scenario unfolds quite differently.When connecting the USB drive to your PC or laptop, it is determined by the operating system as a storage medium in size 0 Mb.In this case, the information will not be able to maintain, since it is necessary to format the USB flash drive.
But at this stage, you can expect a trick.Sometimes, such that it is impossible to format the USB flash drive.Windows starts to format the media, but by the end of the operation displays a message box that can not complete the formatting.This is very sad outcome.Vindovs can not format the USB flash drive by standard means.But still, even in this case, a chance to save media.
can try to replace the file system drive.To do this, use the command line Windows.To access the command line, you must press the "Start" button, and then execute the command drive CMD.Or do easier - press the combination of two keys Win and R, then, in the window that appears to drive the command CMD.When you'll get a black command window, you must enter the following: Convert (your drive letter): / fs: ntfs / nosecurity / x.This command will do the conversion of the file system drive to NTFS and then formatted.If everything worked out, format the USB flash drive in a standard way.If not - read on.
If the standard Windows tools do not have coped with the problem, you can try to format the USB flash drive using the program HP USB Disk format tool.This small, and most importantly - a free program that restores often have seemingly lost all media.If you managed to save the drive after a successful recovery need to format it using standard Windows.Well, if this program does not work, we continue to continue to use all the methods for data recovery.
Now we need to try to format the USB flash drive with the help of proprietary utilities for low-level formatting.To do this, you must know the name of the manufacturer of your damaged drive.If the manufacturer is known, it is necessary to go to his official website and there you will find the necessary program.The task is not easy, since all these sites are mostly English-speaking.But if you want all you can find.The main thing you need to remember that when you use an inappropriate program, there is a risk permanently ruin the stick.If you managed to find such a tool, then a 90% chance it will help you and the flash drive will work again.
If none of the above method will not help, and a flash card and does not work, then, as if it was not sad, but this flash can safely throw.But if it contains very important information, you can include a drive to a specialized service center.There's professionals are more likely to get information from your drive, and even fix it.
Now you know almost all the methods of recovery of faulty flash drives.Of course, there are many ways to restore the most exotic drives, but the methods described in this article, typically in most cases, help.
